As the civil war ravaged Mandalore and its clans, the New Mandalorians gained a new leader: DuchessSatine Kryze, whose father, the warlord of Clan Kryze, was among the conflict's casualties. The charismatic Kryze convinced most of the quarreling clan leaders and warriors to embrace pacifism, effectively ending the war. While Kryze ushered in a new age of peace and prosperity to Mandalore, the Death Watch survived into the time of the Clone Wars, never relenting in its campaign to oust Kryze and her regime.

"But even as Mereel's ideas died on Galidraan, Mandalore was in flames. The Great Clan Wars had begun. We declared ourselves and sought to rally our kinsmen to our standard, but we were too few, weakened by petty clan disputes that had flared into conflagrations while the fight with the True Mandalorians distracted us."

Around 44 BBY,[3] the inter-clan dissension on Mandalore reached a boiling point, erupting into all-out civil war.[1] Multiple warlords turned on each other, with their clans and even families caught in the middle of the crossfire.[6] Although the Death Watch, under the command of the warrior Tor Vizsla, entered the conflict in an attempt to garner public support and gain momentum for its cause, it too had suffered from the clan disputes.[1] The battles that followed resulted in many deaths and further devastation to the Mandalorian homeworld.[6]

"Satine is weak-minded, like a child, with a child's faith in goodness and rationality. She has proved all too ready to believe the exiles have given up their fight. In fact, the Death Watch is being rebuilt. As always, our trials have made us stronger."

Though defeated, the Death Watch kept working against the New Mandalorians.

The Great Clan Wars, as the event came to be known, became reputed as the deadliest conflict on Mandalore since the Mandalorian Excision of centuries prior.[6] Kryze shouldered the burden of rebuilding her world alone,[5] as Jinn and Kenobi only briefly stayed on-world to observe the situation for the Republic[6] before new orders sent them elsewhere.[5] Determined to never repeat the madness of the Great Clan Wars, Kryze worked with her New Mandalorian allies to ensure that Mandalore once again rejected violence as it had in the wake of the Excision, thus fostering a new age of growth and prosperity for her people.[6] As part of her reforms, Kryze discouraged the traditional clan system in favor of a more democratic government.[11] She also restructured the Mandalorian Guard, Mandalore's primary law enforcement, because Guardsmen units had primarily become power bases for various clans.[1]

The Death Watch seethed with frustration from its failure to unseat the New Mandalorians. Nevertheless, the Death Watchmen bode their time,[6] their beliefs surviving in particular among the unrepentant warriors who were exiled to Mandalore's moon, Concordia.[7][13] Tor Vizsla recorded the Great Clan Wars in a Death Watch manifesto that he authored. The rise of his successor,[1]Pre Vizsla, ensured that the Death Watch continued its campaign against Kryze's New Mandalorians well into the Clone Wars over a decade later.[13]

The Official Star Wars Fact File Part 17, released in 2014, contradicted much of the information from The Bounty Hunter Code. Instead of depicting Kryze's rise to power during the Great Clan Wars, The Official Star Wars Fact File placed her ascension during the twenty-six years of the preceding Mandalorian Civil War, with no direct reference to the Great Clan Wars.[11] Due to the timeline of events established in The Bounty Hunter Code, this article assumes that The Official Star Wars Fact File is in error.